Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-10-07
A COMMERCIAL CONVENTION.
A Correspondent Writes Interestingly on
the Registers Proposition.

A Correspondent Writes Interestingly on
the Registers Proposition.
KEYsER, W. Va, October 4th, 1887.
To ne Editor oft Register.
DEAR SIR am very much impressed
with a suggestion contained in your enter
prising paper OF this date, in regard to
holding in Wheeling a Commercial Con-
vention with a view to promoting the
material interests and development of the
State. The time is propitious for such o
movement, the country at large is enjoy
ing great prosperity, and capital is seeking
profitable investment and all kinds Of new
enterprises are starting. Certainly Wheel
ing is the proper place to hold sucha move
ment. She Is the largest commercial and
industrial centre in the State. She is her
self having quite a boom. She is readily
accessible from all parts of the State, and
the well known enterprise and hospitality
OF the people will be a guarantee of success.
Let a few of your business
men get together, fix on a time and place
for such a convention and issue over their
names, as a guarantee of good faith, a cir
cular letter to the business men of the
State, inviting them to assemble in Wheel
ing at the time named, for the purpose Of
discussing the best methods of developing
and promoting the material interests of the
State and forming an organization for that
purpose. Let this invitation be extended
to men interested in building and operat-
ing railroads in the different parts of the
State, owners Ofcoal and lumber lands un-
developed, 10 operators of coal mines in
the Kanawha Valley, the Elk Garden
country and the vast region west of the
Alleganies, TO persons interested in the
new and growing cOking industry at
Thomas, Newbend, FairmOut, Clarksburg
and other places, to coal oil men, natural
gas men, lumbermen in the vast forests on
Greenbrier, Gauley, New, Elk and Cheat
rivers, and an the line of the West Virginia
Central and r. railroad, to the salt men
In the kanawha and Ohio valleys, to
farmers, stock raisers and wool growers
throughout the State, to manufacturers OF
Wheeling and elsewhere in the State, TO
bankers aud to prominent representatives
Of the laboIing interests. Ii this is done
and the newspapers of Wheeling and the
rest of the State will take an interest in it,
you will have such a gathering Of repre-
sentative business men as has never before
been assembled in this State. Let your
committee invite q few prominent gentle
men representing different sections and
different interests to deliver addresses in
the first meeting, and then let a permanent
organization he formed.
Such meetings and such an organization
must, il seems to me, result in inCalCulable
advantages to the whole State. The pro-
ceediDgs will be a great advertisement of
the resources of the State. The represent
tations from the different sections will
have an opportunity to present to the pub
lie the resources, products and needs Of
their respective portions of the State, it
will bring our business men together, bring
about cooperation between them and
teach them to depend on each other more
and on outsiders less, and it may result in
establishing a better understanding and
more harmonious relations between en-
plOyer and employe-between capital and
labor. Ii is certainly worth q trial. Every
thing is done nowadays by organization
and publicdiscussiOn. Let West Nirginians
organize and help each Others
Respectfully,
ORGANIZER.